Golden Bazaar Restaurant
restaurant — 339 Elephant Street
Trap score: 42/100 (yellow)
Golden Bazaar Restaurant is a Restaurant popular with visitors; check recent reports before you go.
Location: Nairobi
Reports (12)
- fake_reviews (severity 3/5) — 2026-02: What was advertised online looked nothing like the room we actually got.
- taxi_meter (severity 3/5) — 2026-02: Bracelet forced onto my wrist, then demanded payment for the 'free' gift.
- theft (severity 2/5) — 2025-08: Room photos were of a different building entirely; total bait and switch.
- other (severity 1/5) — 2025-06: Room photos were of a different building entirely; total bait and switch.
- taxi_meter (severity 3/5) — 2025-04: Currency-exchange sleight of hand — got short-changed and they denied it.
- unsafe (severity 1/5) — 2025-02: My wallet went missing right after a staged distraction near the entrance.
- other (severity 1/5) — 2025-01: The ATM ate my card and the 'help desk' asked for my PIN. Obvious scam.
- unsafe (severity 2/5) — 2024-11: My wallet went missing right after a staged distraction near the entrance.
- other (severity 4/5) — 2024-11: Menu had no prices; the final total was absurd and they got hostile when questioned.
- fake_reviews (severity 4/5) — 2024-11: Aggressive commission scheme — the guide steered us only to shops paying kickbacks.
- overcharge (severity 2/5) — 2024-10: Taxi took a 40-minute detour on a 10-minute trip to run up the fare.
- taxi_meter (severity 1/5) — 2024-08: The driver refused to use the meter and demanded a flat fare triple the normal rate.